Biographical and critical works include Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer (1944), perhaps the most comprehensive and important study of Homer; Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer (1979), extensively illustrated; James Thomas Flexner, The World of Winslow Homer, 1836–1910, rev. ed. (1980), a view of the artistic context within which Homer worked; Nikolai Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Winslow Homer (1990); David Tatham, Winslow Homer and the Illustrated Book (1992); Elizabeth Johns, Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation (2002); Randall C. Griffin, Winslow Homer: An American Vision (2006); and several exhibition catalogs: Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer WatercolorsWatercolors (1986); Philip C. Beamet al., Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout’s Neck Observed (1990); and Bruce Robertson, Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influence (1990).